PANAMA CITY – Former Panama President Ricardo Martinelli will be allowed to leave the Nicaraguan embassy where he’s been holed up for more than a year to travel to Nicaragua for humanitarian ...

Panama’s former President Ricardo Martinelli has received political asylum from Nicaragua days after Panama's Supreme Court denied his appeal over a money laundering conviction that carried a 10 ...

PANAMA CITY — Panama’s former President Ricardo Martinelli has received political asylum from Nicaragua days after Panama’s Supreme Court denied his appeal over a money laundering conviction ...

Ricardo Martinelli, a 71-year-old conservative businessman who led Panama from 2009 to 2014, was granted asylum by Nicaragua this week after Panama’s Supreme Court denied his appeal of a money ...

While Panama's ex-president, Ricardo Martinelli, remains holed up in Nicaragua's embassy a federal judiciary denied his release to reflect the flight risk the 71-year-old poses.

A police officer stands outside Nicaragua's embassy where Panama's former President Ricardo Martinelli has been holed up for more than a year to avoid arrest in Panama City, Thursday, March 27, 2025.

PANAMA CITY — Panama’s former President Ricardo Martinelli has received political asylum from Nicaragua days after Panama's Supreme Court denied his appeal over a money laundering conviction ...

Panama’s former President Ricardo Martinelli has received political asylum from Nicaragua days after Panama's Supreme Court denied his appeal over a money laundering conviction that carried a 10 ...

PANAMA CITY (AP) — Panama’s former President Ricardo Martinelli has received political asylum from Nicaragua days after Panama’s Supreme Court denied his appeal over a money laundering ...

Martinelli would not be the first ex-president fleeing the law to land in Nicaragua. President Daniel Ortega’s administration granted citizenship to former President Mauricio Funes in 2019.